The Feast of the Goat, (Paperback)

from mearias

4.5 starsThis book has made me want to learn more from my parents about what it meant to be born and live through the Trujillo era. What it meant to my family and what was really going on during that time. I have heard some stories from my father, but now the context of understanding has broadene...

from deebee1

A brilliant political novel about the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, Vargas Llosa weaves drama and suspense about real events with such mastery and intensity. He constructs a vivid portrayal of the last days of the brutal regime from three points of view -- from the daughter of ...

from nandadevi

In a way that Latin American literature seems to excel at, this is at once gripping in its raw depiction of desperation and corruption, and obscene and disturbing. It's as if the author has decided 'you need to hear this' and the reader's sensibilities are not spared - just as the participants in...

from deebee1

A brilliant political novel about the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, Vargas Llosa weaves drama and suspense about real events with such mastery and intensity. He constructs a vivid portrayal of the last days of the brutal regime from three points of view -- from the daughter of ...

from FicusFan

One of my book groups is reading In the Time of the Butterflies. Someone on LT recommended this book as a companion read because it also deals with the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. The story is set in 1961, just before Trujillo was as assassinated. This is a good book that rea...